1923 Dayton Flyers football team

1923 Dayton Flyers football
ConferenceIndependent
Record4–5
Head coach
Home stadiumVarsity Field
1923 Midwestern college football independents records
Conf. Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Marquette   –   8 – 0 – 0
Michigan Mines   –   2 – 0 – 0
Notre Dame   –   9 – 1 – 0
Western State Normal   –   6 – 1 – 1
Haskell   –   11 – 2 – 1
Butler   –   7 – 2 – 0
Central Michigan   –   5 – 1 – 2
Baldwin–Wallace   –   5 – 2 – 1
Cincinnati   –   6 – 3 – 0
Loyola (IL)   –   6 – 3 – 0
Saint Louis   –   5 – 3 – 1
Detroit   –   4 – 3 – 2
Wabash   –   4 – 3 – 2
John Carroll   –   4 – 4 – 1
Valparaiso   –   2 – 2 – 1
  –   4 – 5 – 0
Michigan Agricultural   –   3 – 5 – 0
Fairmount   –   2 – 4 – 2
Kent State   –   0 – 5 – 0

The 1923 Dayton Flyers football team was an American football team that represented the University of Dayton as an independent during the 1923 college football season. The team compiled a 4–5 record.[1]

Harry Baujan was hired as Dayton's head football coach prior to the 1923 season. He had played football under Knute Rockne at Notre Dame.[2] In his first game as head coach, Baujan led Dayton to a 161-0 victory over the Indiana Central Normal School.[3]

Baujan served as Dayton's head coach through the 1946 season and was posthumously inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1990.[4]

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResultSource
September 29Indiana Central Normal
W 161–0[3]
October 6Duquesne
  • South Park Field
  • Dayton, OH
W 27–0[5]
October 13Transylvania
  • Varsity Field
  • Dayton, OH
W 35–0
October 20Marietta
  • Varsity Field
  • Dayton, OH
L 0–6
October 27at Canisius
L 0–12[6]
November 3John Carroll
L 0–27
November 17at LafayetteEaston, PAL 0–45[7]
November 24Wilmington
  • Varsity Field
  • Dayton, OH
W 34–0
November 29at AshlandAshland, OHL 2–12

References

  1. ^ "2018 Dayton Flyers Media Guide" (PDF). University of Dayton. 2018. p. 14.
  2. ^ "Beaujan Arrives Ready for Work". The Dayton Herald. September 4, 1923. p. 17 – via Newspapers.com.
  3. ^ a b "U.D. Wins Opener By 161-0 Score: Varsity Eleven Rolls Over Foe in One-Sided Grid Clash". Dayton Daily News. September 30, 1923. p. II-10 – via Newspapers.com.
  4. ^ "Harry Baujan". National Football Foundation. Retrieved June 3, 2020.
  5. ^ "Varsity Machine Rolls Up Win Over Duquesne By Score of 27 to 0". Dayton Daily News. October 7, 1923. pp. Sports 1, 4 – via Newspapers.com.
  6. ^ "Canisius Downs Dayton, 12-0". Buffalo Express. October 28, 1923 – via Newspapers.com.
  7. ^ "Dayton University Blanked By Lafayette Grid Squad". The Morning Call. November 18, 1923. p. 11 – via Newspapers.com.